I always like the contrast in textures between the metal and brick buildings, and this one is especially nice because there is also a contrast between the vertical lines of the metal building and the horizontal ones of the brick structure.

Yes, it seems to be a modern statement kind of material around here. Quite what the statement is, I am still wondering since there was so little of it in an industrial or other context in these parts that the message is kind of lost around here. Or diluted by the rain.

You can document the emergence of it in the Greater Victoria Area. And then, later (but probably not much later), you can also document its decline. The statement probably is, “Well, we saw this in an architectural magazine and thought we should do it, too.”

Architecture (or fashion in general) is quite provincial in this area – much of what I am seeing built these days looks an awful lot like what I saw going up in London in the late 80s. If I was watching the London scene and new the exact delay in transmittal, I could probably predict to a few months when the decline would occur here.